Risk Perceptions and Fear of Criminal Victimization Among Visitors to Jamaica

Autor:	Anthony Harriott
Rok vydání:	2007
Předmět:	Risk perception Anthropology media_common.quotation_subject Perception Visitor pattern Psychological resilience Psychology Law Social psychology Tourism media_common
Zdroj:	Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice. 5:93-108
ISSN:	1537-7946 1537-7938
Popis:	Tourism is viewed as being particularly vulnerable to crime and data on the attitudes of visitors and travel agents tend to confirm this. Visitor perceptions of the risk of being criminally victimized in Jamaica have tended to be somewhat negative although the rate of criminal victimization of tourists is fairly low. Visitors' perceptions of safety are thus not in keeping with the objective indicators of the risk of tourist victimization. This paper attempts to explain this disjuncture between risk perception and the reality of visitor victimization. It discusses the likely long-term effects, and suggests possible responses to it.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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